Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:57:45 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au,
	Peter Gruber <nokos@gmx.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fuijtsu Lifebook RFKILL support
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:28:57AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Len, I would still like to export the 3 values learned about in this
> > event to userspace. Is it alright for me to create 3 read-only files on
> > the platform device? (docked, lid, radios)
> > It would if anything simplify the code.
> 
> FWIW, I think this is also the way to go.  It is much easier for
> userspace to deal with sysfs attributes.  HAL can deal with more
> complex stuff, but shell script writers often don't know how to, nor
> care to, deal with HAL.

I feel like I'm missing something here, but surely what we're talking 
about is simply a single rfkill device that affects all radios and as 
such should have a new RFKILL_TYPE_ALL type associated with it? I'd read 
this as there being a software control that affected all radios. If 
there's no software control at all then I agree that providing an rfkill 
class here isn't appropriate.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org